(Submitted by friend of the blog, Susan Gerbic)
Both of my grandmothers died on the same day, December 18th; one in 1925 the other in 1954. We always thought that was odd, but still not quite that odd. Then when in 1996 my then husband’s grandmother died on December 18th we really starting questioning it. The remaining grandmother was still alive at this time. Three out of three, that’s really interesting odds. If I might add in one more, when we were telling my husband’s step-father of this coincidence, he went into another room and brought out his mother’s death certificate. Same death date, December 18th.
All the grandmothers in our family, biological and step had died, on the same day. This was all before 2000; since then the remaining grandmother has now died and she died in March.
This was my story. An update. So far December 18th has been death free. But then again we are almost out of grandmothers.
We are now completely out of grandmothers. My mother (who was a grandmother) died in August 2008. Actually if I want to be exact there is one more Grandmother (my ex-husband’s mom) who is still alive. But I have no contact with my ex or his family.
See what I just did. If she dies on Dec 18th then I can claim her as “family”. If she doesn’t then I can say she is no longer “family”.
I still think it is odd that both my grandmothers died on the same day (different years) and then followed by my then-husband’s grandmother also on Dec 18th.
It is a day that I usually spend thinking about these women and what their lives must have been like so long ago.